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June 11, 2013

The Legend of Mount Capsized Ark

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Sangkuriang himself has gone wandered around the world. He go to a lot of powerful hermits to study magic. So he is not a boy anymore. He has grown into a young man who is strong, powerful, and mighty. After a long time he walk to the east finally arrived in the west again. And unknowingly he had returned to Dayang Sumbi, his mother was. Sangkuriang doesn't recognize the beautiful princess that he founded, was his mother. Because Dayang Sumbi did asceticism and only eat raw plant, so she became stay beauty and youthful.

At first, Dayang Sumbi also didn't realize that the handsome knight was her own son. Then they both intimate dating. When Sangkuriang was leaning tenderly and Dayang Sumbi was combing the Sangkuriang hair, accidentally, she know Sangkuriang was her own son from scars on his head, former being hit by her spoon. She also explain to Sangkuriang that he was her own son and she was his mother.

However Sangkuriang still force to merry her. Dayang Sumbi desperately trying to refuse. So she maneuvering to determine proposal requirements that can not fulfilled by Sangkuriang. She ask Sangkuriang to make one ark and lake in one night by stem the Citarum river. Sangkuriang take that requirement and promised that he was capable to do that.

Then be made the ark from a tree on the east, stump tree turned into a Mount Bukit Tanggul. The branches stacked up on the west and turned into a Mount Burangrang. With the help of guriang (spirits), the dam was almost completed. But Dayang Sumbi begged to Sang Hyang Tunggal so that Sangkuriang intention can not be realized. She spread cloths boeh rarang (her own weaving white cloth), and so the white cloth glowing like dawn broke across the eastern horizon. Guriang spirits the servant of Sangkuriang are frightened because they thought it was began to the morning, they run way, and disappear into hiding in the ground.

Because he failed to qualify Dayang Sumbi, Sangkuriang became furious and rages. At the peak of his anger, he break the dam was located in Sang Hyang Tikoro, and threw the stopper flow Citarum river to the east and transformed into Mount Manglayang. Water in Talaga Bandung (lake) became receding again. And the ark that he made by hard work, kicked out to the north turned into Mount Tangkuban Perahu (Mount Capsized Ark).

Sangkuriang continue to pursue Dayang Sumbi who ran away to escape pursuit from her own son who had lost his common sense. Dayang Sumbi almost caught by Sangkuriang in Gunung Putri (Mount Of Princess), and she begged to Sang Hyang Tunggal in order to save her. Then she transformed into a flower (jaksi flower). As for Sangkuriang he had arrived at the place called Ujungberung (edge of desire) and finally he disappeared into invisible realm (ngahyang). Sangkuriang and Dayang Sumbi never meet each other again.

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